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Today I'll show you a horror-thriller film: "The Orphanage"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a flock of children in identical gray outfits,
playing on the spacious grounds of an orphanage
They are all happy in the company of each other;
but unbeknownst to them, one of the girls is getting adopted that very same day
Decades later, the now-adult girl, named Laura,
is woken up in the middle of the night by the screams of her son, Simón
She gets out of bed, and goes to his bedroom to comfort him
The next morning, a team of movers is busy moving furniture into the same orphanage,
which Laura had recently bought
She smiles, upon seeing her husband playing the piano in one of the rooms
Laura accompanies Simón to a nearby lighthouse on a beach
The boy goes deeper into the cave right by the lighthouse, and explores it with a flashlight
Laura notices that her son is no longer with her;
and she follows him inside the cave, shouting his name
She finds him talking to an imaginary friend, a boy that he invites to go to their house later
Laura doesn't take him seriously; but she does look at the dark opening,
where Simón had been talking to his imaginary friend
She shines her flashlight to the ground,
and sees a pair of footprints leading deeper into the opening
As they walk back home,
Simón leaves a trail of seashells for his imaginary friend, to follow to their home
It begins to rain later that afternoon
A social worker, named Benigna, knocks on the door, and asks to speak to Laura regarding Simón
Laura lets Benigna in; and she marvels at the grandness of the old orphanage
Laura shares that she grew up there;
and she wishes to reopen the orphanage for children with disabilities
But the social worker is more interested in Simón,
who is revealed to have been adopted and HIV-positive
She hands Laura the adoption file,
and suggests that they try a new experimental program to treat his illness
Laura is uncomfortable with Benigna's prying into Simón's life;
so she quickly explains that her husband is a doctor; and they're already doing the best they can
She makes it clear that they don't need Benigna's help; and she leaves the house shortly after
Laura then locks the documents in a drawer in the kitchen
That night, Laura is awoken by sounds coming from the shed
She goes to the shed herself, and discovers Benigna inside holding a shovel
She demands that she explain herself; but the social worker flees into the night
The next morning, Laura discovers a trail of seashells on her doorstep
Almost as if someone had collected the seashells Simón had left yesterday
Somewhere inside the house, a door swings shut
She and Simón are hanging out inside one of the rooms, talking about Peter Pan
Simón causally says that he will never grow old just like his six friends
Later, Laura finds her son's drawing depicting his six friends
The friends are wearing identical outfits, and holding things in their hands
Simón explains that they are playing a game,
where he has to follow clues to find the treasure coins
If he finds the treasure, then his wish will be granted
He then shows his mother a tin can, filled with his baby teeth;
and says that they're the first clue
Laura goes to her bedside table, and retrieves the bottle where she keeps Simón's baby teeth
She finds sand when she opens it
Later, The two find a sandpit near the garden; and they start digging
Laura finds a thimble in the sand; and Simón gets the idea to search the sewing box
The clue there leads them to a matryoshka doll,
showing the key to the drawer with the adoption papers inside
True enough, Simón is able to unlock the drawer with the key
He rejoices when he sees coins inside the drawer
But Laura accuses him of orchestrating the game, and reprimands him for messing with her things
Simón gets angry at his mother for not believing him,
and reveals that his friend Tomás told him that he is an orphan like the rest of his friends,
and that he will die soon
Laura and her husband decide to talk to Simón,
and calmly explain to him his adoption, and the nature of his illness
The husband tells him about the medications he needs to take regularly, so he won't die
The day of the orphanage's reopening comes; and so arrive the disabled children, who will live there
Laura is throwing a party to welcome them all;
and she calls Simón to go downstairs and socialize with their guests
But Simón wants to show her Tomás' little house
Unfortunately, she has no patience for her son's antics that day;
and she slaps him for being stubborn
Simón begins to cry; and she tells him that he can stay upstairs if he wants
Laura goes down, as the costume party begins on the orphanage grounds
Many children happily play and wear masks
But she doesn't notice one child, standing far from the rest
He is wearing a sack over his head, and a dark blue smock with the name "Tomás" sewn on it
She goes upstairs to make up with Simón, but doesn't find him anywhere
The boy follows her; and Laura thinks that it's Simón
But when she tries to remove the sack, the boy shrieks,
causing Laura to topple into the bathroom behind her
She grasps at the boy, and tears away a scrap from his clothing
The boy closes the door; and it crushes her fingers
He then locks her inside with a key
Laura calls for her husband to open the door
She races out of the bathroom, and frantically looks for Simón in the house,
even knocking down some scaffolding, in her haste to open doors and cabinets
But there is still no sign of him, not even when Laura starts searching for him outside too
After that, She runs to the lighthouse, and sees Simón by the cave entrance
She tries to follow him; but she gets injured and lands in the crashing surf
Simón goes deeper into the cave, as the husband cradles an inconsolable Laura
The thing is that only Laura saw Simón
Nonetheless, ships still scour the waters near the lighthouse, looking for Simón;
but find no trace of him
Laura is taken to the hospital because of her injury
There she meets a police psychologist,
who informs her that the social worker who visited her before, isn't really a social worker
That night, the husband comforts Laura by giving her his Saint Anthony medallion
He tells her that it will bring them good luck;
and she can return it to him when they've found Simón
After they go to sleep, Laura dreams of swimming in the sea
She wakes up, and hears a clanging sound from Simón's bedroom
But when she enters the room, there's no one, except a doll left on his bed
Six months pass; and they still haven't found their missing son
Laura and her husband attend group therapy;
and she shares that she believes that Simón's imaginary friends really are in the house
While the couple is heading home, they encounter Benigna in the middle of the street
She is pushing a stroller; and Laura calls her
Benigna turns and looks at her; then an ambulance comes out of nowhere, and hits the woman
The husband runs to resuscitate her,
but Laura looks at the stroller first, thinking that Simón might be there
But there's nothing but a doll of a boy, wearing a mask inside
The mysterious lady, Benigna, dies on the scene
Later on, the psychologist shows Laura the things the police found in Benigna's house
First, there's a picture of the orphans and employees in the orphanage, including Laura
The psychologist tells her that Benigna was actually a maid there,
and that she had a son born with a deformity named Tomás
He was kept hidden from the world because of his defect
the psychologist then shows her a few rolls of film
Laura watches them at home;
and she sees that Tomás looks exactly like the boy she had seen in the house,
the day Simón disappeared
Apparently, a few weeks after Laura was adopted, the other orphans played a prank on Tomás,
and removed his mask while they were in the beachside cave
He refused to go out without his mask; and so he drowned when the high tide came in
Still not able to shake the otherworldly feeling surrounding her son's disappearance,
Laura attends a paranormal conference
The professor of parapsychology there recommends that she get in touch with a renowned psychic
Later, The professor and the group arrive at the orphanage for a seance
the psychic is in one room; while the others are in another,
watching everything through the cameras
She communes with the spirits in the house, which she identifies as children
the psychic moves around during the seance, and stops in front of a door
The equipment picks up the wails and cries of children, begging to be released
the psychic opens the door,
and tells the others that she sees five children, who were poisoned and dying
The cameras go haywire; and the professor ends the seance
Later on, the psychic says that the layout of the house that she saw,
was very different and older than it is now
But she wasn't able to see Simón's spirit during the seance
The husband and the psychologist are very skeptical of what happened;
but Laura believes that the spirits of the children really are in the house
The husband proposes that he and Laura get away from the orphanage for a while
He is fed up with Laura's paranormal quest; and he wants them to move on
But Laura can only think of being with Simón
The next day, a window mysteriously breaks, while Laura is in the children's room
The shards fall on the seat cushion
She pries it away, and discovers her fellow orphans' names written on the floorboards
Under these floorboards are dolls, and a single picture of her with Simón
She realizes that this is yet another treasure hunt
She grabs their family photo album, and sees a dried rose stuck between the pages
This is a clue for her to go to the rose bush in the garden,
where she finds a piece of cloth from Simón's bedspread
The next item leads her to a doorknob inside one of his boxes
Laura finds the matching door in the shed
She steps inside, and sees a portrait of Benigna, lying on the floor near the locked coal storage
She manages to open it, and discovers the remains of the five orphans hidden inside sacks
The truth is finally revealed: after Tomás' death,
Benigna enacted her revenge on the five orphans, for playing a cruel prank on her son
She served them a poisoned blueberry cake, then hid their remains in the shed for years
When Laura bought the orphanage,
Benigna got scared that she would discover the bodies sooner or later;
and that's why she impersonated a social worker,
and was in the shed that night, trying to cover up her crimes
The husband leaves the orphanage later
Laura is now alone; and she decides to recover the house to how it looked like,
when the orphans were still alive
She also gathers some blueberries in the surrounding woods
Finally, she wears the old orphanage's uniform, and takes some sleeping pills
Laura rings the ball,
trying to call the spirits of the children to the dinner table she had prepared
At first, the orphans don't show up
She realizes that the children want her to play with them;
so she starts knocking on the wall, like they used to do when they were young
The orphans begin to appear one by one; then, they scatter into separate directions
Laura follows a girl into one of the storage closets; and she discovers a hidden door
She can't get inside, until she grabs the doorknob left for her by the spirits,
and slides it neatly into the hole in the door
She opens it, and goes down a set of stairs to the room, where Tomás was kept when he was alive
There, she finds Simón, who appears to be alive and well
He asks Laura to stay and play with them
She bundles him up in a blanket, and tells him to close his eyes;
so they can both escape the nightmare
Suddenly, the blanket falls away; and Laura realizes that Simón isn't alive
His corpse is under the stairs, wearing Tomás' sack
It turns out, on That day of the party,
Simón had insisted that he and Laura go to Tomás' house, which was actually the secret room
After Laura left him upstairs, Simón went to the room by himself
Laura returned the scaffolding that fell out of the closet, while she was looking for him;
and the scaffolding actually blocked the door to the room, trapping Simón inside
The crashing sound that Laura heard that night, was actually from Simón falling from the stairs
Laura takes her son's corpse upstairs to the orphans' room
She overdoses on the sleeping pills, and begins to see the spirit of Simón
He tells her that his wish is for her to stay with him and the orphans
Laura obliges, and calls the orphans to her
She begins to tell them a bedtime story
After the discovery of Laura and Simón's bodies,
a memorial is erected in "their" and the orphans' memory
The movie ends with the husband now staying alone in the orphans' room
He sees the medallion that he gave Laura,
and smiles as the doors to the room swing open,
indicating that it is the beginning of a new treasure hunt for him
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